Happy Father’s Day
by I am spending the day at Boston’s Museum of Science with The Son. (Mrs. Doug gets The Daughter for the day.) The museum is hosting …
Author: Doug Cornelius
Star Wars Cakes
I love a good cake. I also love the Cake Wrecks blog, highlighting horrors of cake designs. On the weekends, the blog highlights great cakes …
Lego Bricks in Bulk
I just published a new GeekDad post on getting mass quantities of Lego bricks: Finding Lego Bricks in Bulk. Ray Sims went to eBay and …
Swimming to Antarctica
I just finished reading the autobiography of Lynne Cox – Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer. She is a remarkable athlete with an …
A Visit to the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
A few days ago I took The Son to the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham. (The Daughter came along in her …
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That?
From Seussville.com Coming to your local PBS station in the fall of 2010, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That. Read more …
Bay State Bike Week: May 11-17
May is National Bike Month and here in Massachusetts we’re doing our part to celebrate this event with Bay State Bike Week, May 11th -17th, …
Children’s Book Week
May 11 – 17, 2009 is Children’s Book Week. Read more in my post on GeekDad: Children’s Book Week. Read some of my other GeekDad …
GeekDad: Myst Fifteen Years Later as an iPhone Application
Myst just came out as an iPhone / iPod Touch application. I wrote about it on my new post on GeekDad: Myst Fifteen Years Later …
Free Comic Book Day
My GeekSon has shown some interest in comics. At bedtime, we have occasionally read a “racket noggle.” (His preferred pronunciation of graphic novel.) With the …
My First Post on GeekDad
The folks over at GeekDad on Wired.com accepted me as a contributor. (You can see me listed as an additional contributor in the right-hand bar.) …
Urbanization of Dubai
Dubai undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its coastline. This is the Palm Jumeirah, the first of the palm …
Book Review – The Nine by Jeffrey Tobin
You would expect a book about the inner workings of the United States Supreme Court to be dry and boring. I did, which is why …
Meta Darth Vader
Too much going here. The Son wearing his Darth Vader costume playing Lego Star Wars on the Wii as Luke Skywalker. Makes me proud and …
Colbert in Space
NASA opened itself to the public for help in naming the latest module for the International Space Station. After over 1 million votes, the winner …
Application to Write for GeekDad – Doug Cornelius
As a long time reader of reader of GeekDad I was stunned that there would be openings to join merry clan. So of course I …
Obama Knows Where the Wild Things Are
President Obama did an excellent reading of Where the Wild Things Are as part of the White House Easter Egg Roll. This book is a …
A Wall of White – My Book Review
I wanted to really like this book. But I didn’t. Jennifer Woodlief tells the story of the 1982 avalanche at the Lake Tahoe ski resort …
Round-up of Blog Posts from Compliance Building
Here is a list of posts from my Compliance Building blog on compliance and business ethics for the week: Waiving the Attorney-Client Privilege By Seeking …
Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust or Boon for Law Firms?
I recently had an article on Faceblocking published in the March 2009 issue of Law Practice Magazine: Online Social Networking: Is It a Productivity Bust …